The Intermediate Guide to Drupal 7
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OSTraining
Course Summary
In this class, you'll learn how to master fields, Views and Panels to create sophisticated Drupal sites.
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Course Description
In this class, you'll learn how to master fields, Views and Panels to create sophisticated Drupal sites.This class follows immediately on from the beginner class and takes your Drupal skills to a higher level.
In the first three parts of the Drupal 7 Intermediate class, you'll build a movie website. First you'll learn how to add multiple types of information using fields:- Introduction to the Project
- Adding the Poster
- Adding the Parental Rating
- Adding the Movie Length
- Adding the Movie Genre
- Adding the Release Date
- Adding the Short Summary
- Adding the Five-Star Rating
- Adding the Watchlist
- Adding the Trailer
- Adding the Key People
- Managing the Display
Then you'll tackle Views, which is the most important module in Drupal. It will allow to display the information you've entered in useful and highly customized ways:- Introduction to Views
- Populating our Site with the Devel Module
- Create a Block View
- Create a Page View
- Create the IMDB Page View
- Modify the IMDB Page View
- Create the Actors Block View
In the third part of the class, you'll learn how to layout your information using the Panels module:- Introduction to Panels
- Creating a New Homepage
- Redesigning an Existing Page or Node
Rod holds two masters degrees and has been training people how to do "things" for over 25 years. Originally from Australia, he grew up in Canada and now resides just outside Cincinnati, Ohio. He has worked in both the non-profit and for-profit worlds, in small companies and large corporations.
His extensive open source experience includes WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Moodle and he really knows how to help you get the most out of the system you chose.
Rod plays ice hockey a couple of times a week and rides his Goldwing motorcycle pretty much everywhere he can.
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Course Syllabus
Warm Up
Introduction
Using Acquia's Dev Desktop
Using MAMP/WAMP
Warm Up Tasks Part 1
Warm Up Tasks Part 2
Create
Introduction to the Project
Adding the Poster
Adding the Parental Rating
Adding the Movie Length
Adding the Movie Genre
Adding the Release Date
Adding the Five-Star Rating
Adding the Short Summary
Adding the Watchlist
Adding Social Networking
Adding Gross Income
Adding the Trailer
Introduction to Entity Reference
Adding the Key People
Managing the Display
Intermediate Fields Quiz
Extend
Introduction to Views
Populating our Site with Devel
Create a Block View
Create a Page View
Create the IMDB Page View
Create the Actors Block View
Intermediate Views Quiz
Design
Introduction to Panels
Creating the New Homepage
Redesign an Existing Node
Clean Up and Summary